{"product_id":"the-art-of-history-african-american-women-artists-engage-the-past-9780813530222","title":"The Art of History African American Women Artists","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines the work of contemporary African-American women artists, focusing on four \"\"problems\"\" that recur when these artists confront their histories: the documentation of truth; the status of the black female body; and the relationships between art and cultural contact, and art and black girlhood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a perceptive study of the forthright work of contemporary African American women painters, sculptors, photographers, and installation artists....Why, she asks, has black art remained marginalized while black music and literature thrive? Collins concludes that images, especially portraits, possess a uniquely volatile power, and that the disregard of black art is the result of the ways slavery, ongoing racism, and class conflict have politicized the depictions of African Americans, especially women. * Booklist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Art of History\u003c\/i\u003e addresses the paradox that African American studies largely neglect the history of art and works by serious visual artists. This contemporary perspective is one of the strongest aspects of the publication, affording insightful analysis of work by a number of exciting artists, accessible and engaging. * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003eThis important study is the first to confront head-on the avoidance of the visual that has plagued black studies in the United States. \u003ci\u003eThe Art of History\u003c\/i\u003e opens the often hermetic world of black visual culture to a much broader realm in which questions central to contemporary feminism, black studies, and cultural theory are brought to bear. -- Judith Wilson * University of California, Irvine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Art of History\u003c\/i\u003e is an important book that expands the significance of visual culture to African American studies debates. It provides cogent and insightful explorations of the work of contemporary African American women artists. Scholars and general readers alike are sure to be compelled by this original and innovative study. -- Valerie Smith * author of Not Just Race, Not Just Gender: Black Feminist Readings *\u003cbr\u003eA compact and complex publication, \u003ci\u003eThe Art of History\u003c\/i\u003e addresses the paradox that African American studies, while preoccupied with visual culture, largely neglects the history of art and works by serious visual artists...accessible and engaging...authoritative and convincing text. * Choice *","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038412472663,"sku":"9780813530222","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813530222.jpg?v=1750940257","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-art-of-history-african-american-women-artists-engage-the-past-9780813530222","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}